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From: pezely@udel.EDU (Dan Pezely)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Does this proprosal make sense ? (was RE: SPACE QUEST)
Message-ID: <20220@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 89 02:08:04 GMT
References: <27897@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: pezely@udel.EDU (Daniel Pezely)
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In article <27897@watmath.waterloo.edu> grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) writes:
>The work would be done by the members; all money raised would be put back
>into the organization to better the facilities/do R&D/etc. 
I was hoping that people who could afford to spend their on something
such as this, would do just that.

>The administration of the group would serve to connect people together
>into working groups. They would gather information on the members
>(regarding what everyone can do/will do) and give the information to its
>members and ask the members for possible plans of action. The
>administration would then gather all the plans and try and condense them
>into one plan, which would be given back to the members. This would bounce
>back and forth until a plan was had that everyone could live with.

The reason for the suggestion of the space contractors owning the
adminestration corporation was so that the designers could use
off-the-shelf components as cheaply as possible.

Even if the contractors don't want to be part of the corporation, we
should still be able to use off-the-shelf components.  Supposedly, we
could have built massive space stations ten years ago with existing
technology and have space for a population of 30,000.  That should be
more true today.
- Daniel